Mental Health

The incredible implications of a meditation habit have been widely documented, but sometimes it brings the point home to look at the actual brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that are affected when we sit in quiet contemplation and raise our consciousness.
There are seven important neurotransmitters that change...

Do you have difficulty experiencing a calm, fully-present experience of life? When you try to meditate or stay in the moment, do you feel as if you are constantly pulled into the future, or do traumatic events from the past flood your brain? While this...

Emotions can affect our health in many ways, not only the accumulated emotions, but also the active ones. The ones that are triggered every time that we encounter certain pre-programmed circumstances.⠀
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In addition to that, we also have emotional programming that we have inherited through cellular...

Toxic shame, and other resulting emotional coping mechanisms from deep childhood trauma often has people feeling that they can’t face the pain they experienced when they were young, innocent human beings. Traumatic abuse – whether its sexual, physical, or emotional abuse – causes lasting changes...

According to the famous psychologist, Carl Jung, the ego represents the unconscious mind, which works together with the superconscious mind and the conscious mind to control your daily actions, thoughts, and responses.
The subconscious mind (or unconscious as Jung called it) is responsible for holding all...

Getting the mind to understand how other things work isn’t so difficult, but the mind understanding how it works, itself, presents a whole different set of problems to scientists. What we do know with the help of modern science, is that the brain creates a...

The tortured artist is a stereotype that we’re all too familiar with. We’ve been primed to believe that artistic and creative genius comes at a price. Sadly, the suppression of our creative gifts is often the cause of our energetic depletion, and certainly a lack...